Starship Asterisk*

Nice work with the color channels, there! The eighth bow (a reflection of the fourth, which you've brought out nicely) is faint enough that the argument can be made that I'm not seeing it at all, but merely wishing it into existence by virtue of everything else having a reflection in the lake. But I...

Same here. I thought, when reading the caption at first, that they must mean six ABOVE the surface of the water.

I count eight. There's a secondary, color-reversed rainbow outside the "intermediate" one, and both are reflected in the water.

From the March 31st APOD: In fact, from its vantage point 150 million kilometers sunward of planet Earth, SOHO's cameras can always monitor the Sun's outer atmosphere, or corona. SOHO's vantage point is 1.5 million kilometers sunward from planet Earth ( link! ). The sun itself is 150 million kilomet...

The streak is as close to straight as makes no difference when I pull the image into an editor and draw straight lines along it. My first thought was that it could have been some sort of ballistic projectile, but with a line that straight, it came from a LONG way off, and was moving FAST. "Film...